5770 X-fire or wait for 5870?

AMG · 11 Nov 2009 at 23:06

very tempting, but only if they can match GTX295 which I can't see even overclocked, may not be far off that mark through

Skalaberg · 11 Nov 2009 at 23:15

MOOGLEYS said:
Have you tried the cards one at a time. ?

This is one card at a time....was going to get the drivers installed with just one card then run a few benchies to get a baseline and then install the second card and crossfire them.

MOOGLEYS · 11 Nov 2009 at 23:20

Skalaberg said:
This is one card at a time....was going to get the drivers installed with just one card then run a few benchies to get a baseline and then install the second card and crossfire them.

Did you uninstall all the nvidia drivers ? Silly one but you have plugged it in ?

hyperst · 11 Nov 2009 at 23:30

yes as above really, have you plugged in the 6 pin power lead from your psu to the back of the card, its in one of the red vents

Skalaberg · 11 Nov 2009 at 23:37

hyperst said:
yes as above really, have you plugged in the 6 pin power lead from your psu to the back of the card, its in one of the red vents

yup the fan on the ati card/s spins up fine...my 8800gtx uses 2 6 pin connectors but the 5770 only one so I even tried both 6 pin connectors in both cards. I've tried every possible combination I can think of for both cards and nothing..put the old gtx in ang hey presto..no probs.

MOOGLEYS · 11 Nov 2009 at 23:39

Try resetting the motherboard bios.. Does seem weird if your nvidia card works fine.

Alexdaredevilz · 11 Nov 2009 at 23:47

only prob ive had is the heat, averaging 80-90 degrees each, just playing borderlands

MOOGLEYS · 11 Nov 2009 at 23:48

Alexdaredevilz said:
only prob ive had is the heat, averaging 80-90 degrees each, just playing borderlands

Ouch mine never go above 55.C even when clocked up...

Skalaberg · 11 Nov 2009 at 23:58

MOOGLEYS said:
Try resetting the motherboard bios.. Does seem weird if your nvidia card works fine.

Yes resetting bios is all I can think of too..

Edit..tried that to no avail...still no output to the monitor so changed back again to the 8800gtx (and all is fine). This is really bugging me now..surely I can't be so unlucky that both these cards have the same fault. i guess I'll try tech support in the morning.

Skal.

HeX · 12 Nov 2009 at 08:29

Does your mobo have any recent BIOS updates? Might be worth flashing to latest just incase.

Don't see why you should have a problem though, especially with one card

Skalaberg · 12 Nov 2009 at 09:04

HeX said:
Does your mobo have any recent BIOS updates? Might be worth flashing to latest just incase.

Don't see why you should have a problem though, especially with one card

OK I tried support this morning but they are as stumped as me on this apart from suggesting the cards are incompatable with the asus p5q pro turbo mobo. Is anyone out there using the Asus board at the monent with a 5770 card that can confirm they work ok on it?

Skal.

Empyrion · 12 Nov 2009 at 15:57

I've installed the bridge. GPU-Z is telling me that Crossfire is available, however in CCC I'm getting the message:

"Before CrossFireX can be enabled or disabled, you need to close the 3D application or video playback that is currently running"

Only problem is that I can't work out which application this is referring to as the message appears as soon as I start Windows (XP SP3).

sunderland · 12 Nov 2009 at 17:37

are you using the beta 9.11beta drivers as my 5770 wouldnt even work with any other apart from them

Empyrion · 12 Nov 2009 at 17:40

Yep I'm using Cat 9.11 beta from AMD Developer site.

buttkinz · 13 Nov 2009 at 12:42

Skalaberg said:
OK I tried support this morning but they are as stumped as me on this apart from suggesting the cards are incompatable with the asus p5q pro turbo mobo. Is anyone out there using the Asus board at the monent with a 5770 card that can confirm they work ok on it?

Skal.

Hi guys first post n all, thought id take the plunge n register, anyway, Im using the asus p5q pro skal with the asus 5770, works fine here, had a couple of glitches initially but all seems to be working fine, im running a e8200 dual core at 3.6 with it, hope this helps. Specs are in sig.
The only bugs iv found is the damn flickering when using extended desktop in windows 7 on 2 monitors.
could you try the cards in a friends computer??

Skalaberg · 13 Nov 2009 at 13:17

buttkinz said:
Hi guys first post n all, thought id take the plunge n register, anyway, Im using the asus p5q pro skal with the asus 5770, works fine here, had a couple of glitches initially but all seems to be working fine, im running a e8200 dual core at 3.6 with it, hope this helps. Specs are in sig.
The only bugs iv found is the damn flickering when using extended desktop in windows 7 on 2 monitors.
could you try the cards in a friends computer??

cheers for the info buttkinz..I'm trying to find a solution today for testing the cards in another PC..unfortunalty most of my friends are on laptops lol.

pastymuncher · 13 Nov 2009 at 13:59

Any chance someone could measure the mounting spacing for the heatsink (the four bolts around the core) so that i can see if my MP-1 blocks will fit please. Sold my 4870 and a pair of these look good.

kylew · 13 Nov 2009 at 14:07

vian_siu said:
From what i know xfire drivers are usually pretty bad

Who told you that?

marscay · 13 Nov 2009 at 19:12

vian_siu said:
from what i know xfire drivers are usually pretty bad

kylew said:
Who told you that?

Sounds like a comment from someone who has never used crossfire before, probably read some obscure post from 2006 when crossfire did suck.

kylew · 13 Nov 2009 at 19:45

marscay said:
Sounds like a comment from someone who has never used crossfire before, probably read some obscure post from 2006 when crossfire did suck.

Ah right, thinking the past is still the present. :rolleyes:

Shouldn't they also think nVidia only have GeFarce FXes out too then?

SLi and crossfire DID suck, but that was a very long time ago now.